Ashton Kutcher spent time in the hospital after going on one of Steve Jobs’ infamous fruitarian diets to prepare for a new role in a biopic featuring the late Apple CEO.

Kutcher plays the tech titan in a new feature film called jOBS, which hits theaters on April 19.

“First of all, the fruitarian diet can lead to, like, some severe issues. I ended up in the hospital like two days before we started shooting the movie. I was, like, doubled over in pain,” Kutcher said to reporters at the Sundance Film Festival, according to Mashable. “My pancreas levels were completely out of whack, which was really terrifying … considering everything.” (Jobs died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer in October 2011.)

The film debuted last Friday at the film festival in Utah to somewhat mixed reactions, including from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. “What I saw was just so far from anything that really happened or [was] said in those days,” Wozniak told ABC’s Good Morning America.

Another movie of Jobs’ life, written by Aaron Sorkin, is being produced by Sony Pictures. That film will be based on Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the late Apple CEO and founder.

Jobs had a lifelong fascination with fruitarianism, a diet consisting entirely of fruits, nuts and seeds. At one point, the practice also helped inspire one of Jobs’ first great strokes of genius. According to ABC News and Issacson’s biography:

… [Fruits] even served as inspiration for his company’s name. “I was on one of my fruitarian diets,” Jobs reportedly told Isaacson of his decision to name the computer company Apple.

Erica Ho was previously a reporter for TIME in Hong Kong where she wrote about technology, pop culture and Asian international affairs. Before that, she worked at Gizmodo, Lifehacker and AOL. She now currently runs Map Happy, a travel-oriented site.

Its more complicated than that. You can't just go from crappy diet to fruit based. Fruits are very detoxifying, and body need to adjust, go slowly. Kutcher just dont know what is he doing, and blame the fruit :D

I have practiced the Mucusless Diet Healing System by Prof. Arnold Ehret for 11 years and have improved my life substantially. Kutcher, Jobs, and others that do not really read or understand the Mucusless Diet fail to TRANSITION properly. Ehret never told anyone to just eat fruit or do long fasts. There is a chapter called Transition Diet that includes vegetarian, vegan, etc. options. Even cooked foods, dairy, and eggs are listed as things that can be used to transition for extreme cases (most do not need to resort to that though). It is the height of folly to jump into a radical fruit diet and claim that Arnold Ehret's book promoted it. The Mucusless Diet is about TRANSITIONING off of pus and mucus-forming. This takes years, even decades for people who endeavor to do it properly. Not a couple weeks, and not using nothing but fruit. To see excerpts of Ehret cautioning people against radical fruit diets, see http://www.arnoldehret.us/jobs-kutcher-radical-fruit/

What interests me more than the late Steve Jobs' dietary beliefs is the coincidence of the Arab Spring with his finding out that his father is or was from Syria shortly before his death. (He was put up for adoption because his mother's family objected to her relationship, yet she afterward married Steve Jobs' father anyway, creating the unusual situation of his having a fully-related sister he didn't know about when he was able to reconnect.)

Mr. Jobs was also renowned for finding innovative uses for technology and he had amazing amounts of money and international fame at his disposal. One of the hallmarks of the Arab Spring uprisings was that smartphones and social networks were used to coordinate them. One of the aspects of that which I found most puzzling was: in a part of the world characterized by poverty, how did they suddenly have enough people with smartphones and the accounts to use them? This could all be coincidental. Coincidences can be very odd sometimes. If there is a connection, the worst irony would be that the one country where he most likely would have wanted the Arab Spring to succeed in removing a dictator - Syria - is where it has been most disastrous for those who tried.

As a fruitarian myself, I would like to respond to this discussion if I may

Transitioning from any lifestyle to a fruitarian way of eating does not happen over night. ALL the long term fruitarians report the same, it takes a couple of years, even up to 8 years to fix sometimes the damage that has been done from previous bad health habits.

Just the fact that he did in actual fact land up with severe symptoms, is a response from his body to the fruit in terms of elimination. Fruit is known as a super cleansing agent which will not stop the elimination process once it has started. Fruit removes toxic substances from deep cell structures, repairs organs and cleanses, builds the blood.

This all takes time! A month is probably only enough to clean out a long constipated gut, but the cell walls and mucus sitting like glue inside such a gut, can take very long to clear out, all depending on how much juicy fruits, is included and how much nuts, seeds, avos which are high in fat. The more fat, the slower the transition and cleansing process as fat sits around cell wall structures blocking good sugars and nutrients to pass inside and perform its tasks.

Fruitarians have been in contact with the scientists and medical institutes world wide. Good long term examples:

Essie Honniball, 15 years + fruitarian, studies published by WNNR in the medical journal of South-Africa showed only positive results and nothing bad.

Professor Arnold Ehret fruitarian long term

Dr Graham Fruit Eater long term

Anne Osborne, long term fruitarian.

Well worth studying proper fruitarians, and what specialists really say. Best to take advice from people who do get good results and have made proper scientific public statements in medical journals instead of the next best actor who had a bad detoxing experience from all his own bad lifestyle habits he entertained before.

Perhaps the headline should read, "Not eating a proper fruitarian diet lands Ashton Kutcher in hospital". They way the headline reads right now, it's like someone using a ladder as a chair then falling off of it, and then saying that a ladder put someone in the hospital rather than the misuse of it.

There are many fruitarians who are happy and healthier than most people. I think Aston needs to tell the whole story here. The public is too easily scared and too quick to judge these days and might snap to judgement "just because a star said it". I think his story gives fruitarianism a bad rep. It's so much healthier than the Standard American diet.